(a) continuously monitor for receipt of any of the input data flows;<br/>(b) when the planned inter-urban traffic management request data flow is received in (a), action the strategy that it contains, by sending all or part of its contents in the inter-urban tunnel inputs, inter-urban bridge inputs, inter-urban crossing inhibit, inter-urban strategy details, inter-urban strategies in use, inter-urban strategy details for ramp metering, inter-urban zone access vehicle list, inter-urban lane management requests, inter-urban speed and headway settings, or inter-urban traffic management strategy, inter-urban to urban traffic commands data flows;<br/>(c) when the data flow containing inter-urban static data is received in (a), store its contents for internal use;<br/>(d) when the inter-urban zoning strategy data flow is received in (a), output its contents to the Check Access to Inter-urban Zones function in the inter-urban zone access vehicle list data flow;<br/>(e) when any of the bridge inter-urban inputs, tunnel inter-urban inputs, inter-urban environmental inputs, or inter-urban demand management strategy data flows are received in (a), use their contents to modify the current traffic management strategy, and repeat (b);<br/>(f) when the data flow containing predicted inter-urban network data is received in (a), store its contents for internal use in calculating recommended routes and send these in the inter-urban recommended routes data flow to the Plan Trip Details function;<br/>(g) when either of the urban to inter-urban commands, or inter-urban traffic management strategy data flows are received in (a), use their contents to modify the current traffic management strategy, and repeat (b);<br/>(h) when the operator inter-urban management request data flow is received in (a), use their contents to modify the current traffic management strategy, repeat (b) and output the response to the Provide Inter-urban Road Operator Mgt Interface function in the operator inter-urban management response data flow.<br/>